Mm I'm glad we aren't forced to do maths here. Unless your job will involve it, you don't have to do it at university. There are no general subjects that everyone has to do (that's what high school is for). Although some unis are trying to follow the American model more where you do a more general first year but most people agree that's a bad idea.

I don't get why they push stem either since there are very very few jobs in science and pure maths. There would be more in technology, but even engineering has a shortage of jobs here at the moment. It's very dumb to tell kids to do those subjects.